Man bashing is wrong when anyone does it in society. The fact that feminists allow it to happen shows how hypocritical they are. Sexism is wrong at all times, and society needs to start respecting men more.

Feminism has many clear-cut examples of man-bashing. The basic philosophy of feminism is man-bashing. Believing that patriarchy is a conspiracy theory to hold women down is essentially sexist.

How are Shea-Porter’s comments correct? She includes GOP women in her remarks about women in the bathroom. Those women in no way would work together to pass health care. There are issues in this bill that go beyond gender.

Were the majorities reversed, would those arcane procedural laws be some troubling to you? A clear majority of Americans are opposed to this law. Poll after poll has confirmed that. If Congressional members were actually doing their job, they would listen to their constituents. Those constituents are clearly sending the message that they do not want this bill and want Congress to focus on the economy. How are those rules anti-majoritarian when they reflect the will of the American people?

Our convoluted legislative system just shows that despite a super-majority in the Senate (until last week), majority in the House and the Presidency, Democrats have been incapable of passing any kind of true “change.”

The larger issue is that Democrats are inept and blindly refusing to listen to the opinions of the Americans they represent. The post references that Carol Shea-Porter insulted all of her male colleagues and is sexist and therefore a hypocrite.

But it is worth noting that Shea-Porter’s comments also seem to be substantively accurate, in one respect. A large majority of the women in Congress are Democrats, and, to take the health care reform bills as one example, they appear to be largely unified. Looking at the roll call vote on the House bill, I count only three female defectors from the Democratic party, and, of course, every Democrat in the Senate voted for the House health care bill. So, if you just got the women in Congress together, they would, in point of fact, have passed the legislation that’s otherwise struggling through, easy.

Of course, you might reply that this ignores all the women represented by male Congressmen and doesn’t pay any attention to majority rule and the power of the people and so on. Which is true! Obviously, actually throwing all the men out of Congress and just letting the women vote would be a crazy idea. But one ought to keep in mind that, at the moment, the only reason those aforementioned bills haven’t been passed is an arcane, abused Senate rule that’s also obstructing majority rule and true representation.

It just so happens that chucking guys out of Congress, in this particular situation, would result in an outcome much closer to what the people of this country voted for than the actual political process has. I don’t think that says anything about the relative merits of the sexes, but it certainly says something about how anti-majoritarian and convoluted our current, legislative system is and how blithely conservatives are willing to ignore that, when it suits their purposes.